Education Management: Building Student Success

About the Book

Education management can seem like a very complex system and topic to examine, and this is the reason for the text. Everything in the text follows three streams of research: (a) sociology, (b) political science, and (c) economics. These three fields are interconnected when trying to improve schools and to be a positive leader in the realm of education management. There is no defining definition of educational management since its essence encompasses these diverse disciplines—sociology, political science, and economics. As this text will prove, the purpose of educational management is to bring students and teachers under positive conditions so high academic achievement can take place. This research looked at our education system and its origins. This text is written for policy-makers, curriculum designers, principals, heads of departments, and deans of colleges who can provide professional development to their staff. Staff will be empowered with this compassionate student-centered pedagogy that can enhance their teaching and their students’ performance. This text is also organized in a way that can be easily accessible to parents. Parents who care so deeply about their child but may not know where to start, with long work days and overtime and not having time to truly understand complex systems like education. I am certain that the dedicated and passionate parent can benefit from these findings and gain confidence in student-teacher interviews, no longer intimidated by schools, teachers, vice principals, and principals but can see how true change can happen for their child. This text can help them plan and avoid as many obstacles as possible in education for their child, making it easier so that their child can soar throughout their high school journey, postsecondary school, graduate school, and in their career of choice in the future. This is the intent of the research herein, and with hope and certainty, this research will achieve all these lofty aims.

About the Author

Professor Karma Chukdong holds a master’s in arts and science and a bachelor of education and honors BA. After working in school systems for a few years, he wanted to earn some further qualifications to make more concrete positive change in school systems in terms of management. He has taken many courses at the doctor of education level and eventually acquired a second master’s degree from the University of Toronto in education. This master of education degree focused on curriculum, policy, teaching, leadership, and education management. Karma Chukdong prepared these practical solutions found in this book. These are the most immediate concerns in education management that can be implemented by any administrator or educator who holds compassionate leadership as her or his philosophical pedagogy. This text is presented in a way that is accessible and connected to the practicing education specialist and the passionate parent preparing for the academic life of their child. Presently, Professor Chukdong teaches at Loyalist College and First Nations Technical Institute, where he also mentors and creates curriculum documents, course descriptions, and lesson plans for both colleges. Other titles by this author are The Human Family, and Educational Leadership: A Student-Centered Approach.